supported by her native craft and the whole usages of society as her
allies.


LXXXII.
Anything may be expected and anything may be supposed of a woman who
is in love.


LXXXIII.
The actions of a woman who intends to deceive her husband are almost
always the result of study, but never dictated by reason.


LXXXIV.
The greater number of women advance like the fleas, by erratic leaps
and bounds, They owe their escape to the height or depth of their
first ideas, and any interruption of their plans rather favors their
execution. But they operate only within a narrow area which it is easy
for the husband to make still narrower; and if he keeps cool he will
end by extinguishing this piece of living saltpetre.


LXXXV.
A husband should never allow himself to address a single disparaging
remark to his wife, in presence of a third party.


LXXXVI.
The moment a wife decides to break her marriage vow she reckons her